Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off "half the country"

[Endymio]

U.S companies affecting important natural resources in other countries....that's so expected and sad.

Translation: "gaslighting media article sucks in gullible anti-AI readers".

Kenya worked hard to get this project, and the tax revenues and infrastructure expansion from it will benefit the country immeasurably. And I'll bet you any sum you care to wage -- and even give you 10:1 odds --- that "half the country" doesn't lose power over the center, nor even a a tiny fraction of it.

 

[OortCloud]

I'm getting to the point where I'd like a blanket ban on all usage of AI outside of few very use-cases such as medical research... I really believe we would be better off if the whole thing is killed off.

 

[Endymio]

I'm getting to the point where I'd like a blanket ban on all usage of AI outside of few very use-cases.

...and that's how fascism and all other forms of authoritarian government begin, with the belief that you have the right to enforce your prejudices and beliefs upon the freedom of others.

Tell you what: I'll vote for your AI ban if you vote for my ban on all computer videogames ... outside of a "very few use cases" like educational software for preschoolers.

 

[onebignerd]

These tech companies just ignore the power supply and supply chain shortages that sit in the room like T-Rex, so painfully obvious! Who thought that a small African country would have the infrastructure to handle a massive datacenter, when large Western, European and Asian countries are unable to do so?

Freak'in geniuses!!